School: Portlongfield
- Location:
- Portlongfield, Co. Cavan
- Teacher: S. Ní Chuilinn
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- Mondays and Thursdays are days on which cures for certain ailments are performed. Saturday is an unlucky day for changing from one home to another because whoever changes from one home to another on a Saturday something unlucky happens them and they have to leave the house again in a couple of days. Most people leave the flitting until Monday. Garlic or onions planted on Good Friday and pulled on the fifteenth of August has the cure of the toothache.People generally commence to plant the potatoes about Saint Patricks Day and try to have them finished before the first of May. (The first three days of April are called the borrowed days)
